Crash Site A6M2 Model 21 Zero Tail U-107
This A6M2 Model 21 Zero made an emergency landing on September 11, 1942. Its pilot, Shigejiro Murakami, survived the crash, but was shot by Australian soldiers on 15 October 1942 in a skirmish on Kitava Island. The natives buried the pilot on the island.
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- Text: Kaj Metz
- Photos: San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives
- Pacific Wrecks
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